Lianna Zaragoza is an interdisciplinary artist from South Florida and based in Northern Virginia. The foundation of her practice is rooted in acts of care and efforts of preservation. She often simulates and recreates elements of the natural and built environments of the places she grew up as a resource for simulating home through accessible materials. Operating within the context of cultural and physical displacement, she communicates the entanglement of grief with place through installation, painting, sculpture, and site-responsive works. In her work, she disrupts the notion of loss as a fixed location and approaches it as a site that can be reactivated and has the capacity for continual transformation.